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TEXT

Masāʾil al-talāqī

Title (arabic)

مسائل التلاقي
Title (translit)

Masāʾil al-talāqī
Alias

Maqālaẗ fī masāʾil al-talāqī min mulāḥ al-ḥisāb
Author

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb
Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes

On problems involving the solution of simultaneous linear equations.
ismi_id

47153

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Masāʾil al-talāqī_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 1030

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 134 (no. 328), M28.

Gillispie, Charles, and Abdelhamid Sabra. 1972. “Ibn Al-Haytham”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 6:189-210. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

P. 208, III 83.

Wiedemann, Eilhard. 1970. Aufsätze Zur Arabischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 2 vol. New York: George Olms.

Vol. 2, pp. 616-21.